Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 2 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 3 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 4 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 5 | What gave me a thrill — why , outside the low door , two men were unloading something from a cart ; it was the carcass of a bear ! |